Flatsonar

mpv

by The mpv player contributors

A free, open source, and cross-platform media player

Dangerous permissions Flathub reviewed GPL-2.0+ AND LGPL-2.0-or-later vv0.41.0
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About

Mpv is a movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. Special input URL types are available to read input from a variety of sources other than disk files. Depending on platform, a variety of different video and audio output methods are supported.

Features:

  • Drag and drop playlist
  • Loading external configuration files
  • Flatpak: mpv-mpris support - multimedia keys play/pause support
  • Flatpak: mpv.conf: Screenshots (shortcut key 's') are saved in ~/Pictures/mpv directory
  • Flatpak: mpv config directory is ~/.var/app/io.mpv.Mpv/config/mpv
  • Flatpak: mpv scripts directory is ~/.var/app/io.mpv.Mpv/config/mpv/scripts
  • Flatpak: mpv_inhibit_gnome is included which prevents screen blanking in GNOME while playing media
  • Flatpak: mpv scripts needs write access. Use flatseal app to set home or host write permission

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • read-only access to your entire file system
    --filesystem=host:ro
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • access to xdg-run/pipewire-0
    --filesystem=xdg-run/pipewire-0:ro
  • access to your pictures folder
    --filesystem=xdg-pictures
  • access to /tmp
    --filesystem=/tmp
  • access to your videos folder
    --filesystem=xdg-videos
  • access to ~/.var/app/io.mpv.Mpv/config/mpv/scripts
    --filesystem=~/.var/app/io.mpv.Mpv/config/mpv/scripts:create
  • session inhibit
    --talk-name=org.gnome.SessionManager
  • registers as a media player (MPRIS)
    --own-name=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.mpv.*

Who publishes this

On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.

  • fetches from www.leptonica.org over unencrypted http: anyone on the path can swap the bytes
    source:insecure-url
  • on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.